Chap. XC.
Their Proceedings againſt the Free Cities.
IT followeth how tyrannically they uſed the free Cities. Eſpecially, for that inſtead of an halter, they placed Chief-Officers and Judges in the Cities, without whoſe licence no man could move himſelf: thoſe of the Order of Knights, theſe of Citizens. But what ſuch men? even ſuch, as in the great ſcarcery of home-bred Romanes they were able to procure: Bannites, Italians, or Germanes: or elſe apoſtate Bohemians, covetous muckwormes, who drove their own deſignes, infamous homicides, baſe-begotten perſons, Spirits, ſuch as ſell perſons free born, Fidlers, Stage players, Smiths, certain alſo not ſo much as A. B. C. darians, without eſtate, without any certain abode, without Conſcience, (all this we could eaſily demonſtrate in particular and pertinent examples:) ſo that projecting villany with all impudency, they obliged their faith to Antichriſt, (under the name of Ceſar) for to invent treachery, and lay ſnares for others: men, unworthy to have place in our writings.
2. To ſuch as theſe, were all buſineſſes in Cities committed, upon their determination the Ci-
